Short-term illness does not affect your right to unemployment benefit. However, please indicate on your daily allowance application if you are ill. Also find out your entitlement to sickness benefit. You can apply for this from Kela or, in some cases, from your insurance company.
Unemployment allowance is not paid for longer periods of illness or more permanent incapacity for work. The unemployment allowance can be paid by the Entrepreneur Fund for the days that are part of the Kela sickness allowance waiting period. If the illness continues after this period, the member of the Entrepreneur Fund will only receive Kela’s sickness allowance, not unemployment security. Notify the employment authority of your illness.
If your illness is serious enough to require hospital or other institutional care, please also mention this in your application. When you are in institutional care, you are legally unavailable for work. During this period, you are not entitled to income-related daily allowance.
Send a daily allowance application to the fund for the waiting period of sickness allowance paid by Kela. The fund receives the sickness allowance data directly from Kela. If an insurance company pays compensation for disability or accident, the fund needs a copy of the insurance company’s decisions.